Word: honorable
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...Last year TIME cited the Chief Justice's grim prediction in a cover story about "Those #@!!! Lawyers." The cover this week examines the second object of Burger's concern, His Honor's increasingly powerful colleagues on the bench. To assess the rapid expansion of judicial authority in the U.S. and the delays, anachronisms and inefficiencies that plague the nation's courts, TIME correspondents interviewed dozens of lawyers and judges across the country, including the studiously reclusive Chief Justice himself. Reports Washington Correspondent Doug Brew: "Chatting with Burger in a quiet corner of his office while...
...Yankees will retire his number 15 and place a plaque in his honor on the centerfield wall. But perhaps the greatest tribute of all came from 51,151 fans in Yankee Stadium, who cheered his memory for ten minutes before the team's first game without...
Villagers from the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro presented Queen Elizabeth with a stuffed oryx head and 600 lbs. of coffee, and a three-day festival in her honor featured native dances. One performance, on the theme of "defending the nation and building the economy," was danced by ten-year-olds brandishing wooden rifles, spears, hoes and machetes. At one point half the youngsters set about symbolically killing the other half. Asked what this scene signified, a Tanzanian official explained that the victims were "either the forces of Idi Amin, or racists...
...President himself had wanted it hard by Harvard Yard, and his widow and family intended to honor his wish. But Cambridge residents feared the completed project would attract too many of their countrymen to an already congested neighborhood. And so, after nearly twelve years of wrangling, the family gave up and looked elsewhere. Today, as it nears its official opening in October, the John F. Kennedy Library rises grandly from the edge of the Columbia Point Peninsula in Dorchester, six miles from Cambridge. Designed by I.M. Pei and Partners, the complex includes two theaters, a museum, an eight-story archive...
Even when things again went badly for capitalism, the left could not capitalize on its opportunities. The anti-Establishment was right about the Viet Nam War; it proved a conflict that could not be won, or lost, with honor. But radical rhetoric kept linking dislike of the war with condemnation of the whole American system. Perspectives were blurred; hard-liners compared the U.S. to Hitler's Germany and listeners turned away. Today, as Jimmy Carter acknowledges the country faces recession, popular distrust of big corporations and the existence of a sizable underclass. And still most Americans can imagine...